This may not be intentional silence, but neither Iwahashi Shinichi nor Nakamori Akina has thought about what to say next.
Tonight, when I met Akina Nakamori, I noticed her hesitation and hesitation, so I called her. Before I went out, I could never have predicted that this would unfold like this.
Until he stretched out his hand, Iwahashi Shinichi himself did not think that he would do this. However, when he actually stretched out his hand, he did not feel any regret or wavering.
Akina Nakamori has small hands. When Shinichi Iwahashi and she used to high-five to celebrate, they clapped their small hands together with their big hands.
Compared with her radiant beauty, her hands can't be said to be beautiful, but rather ordinary.
As a child of a shopping street, she used to ride a bicycle to buy groceries for her big family. She could bargain with vendors skillfully at a young age. When she returned home, she helped her mother with housework and processing ingredients.
Miss Jiao.
Shinichi Iwahashi looked at her face. Akina Nakamori was very beautiful. It would be a lie to say that he was not moved by her beauty.
However, now that I hold her smoky hand, the feeling that she is an "ordinary person" becomes even stronger. The things she wrote in letters and told him about her childhood seemed to change with each hand.
Holding this hand, it became clear before his eyes.
If you think about it carefully, when we first met her, she was Nakamori Akina who went to the concert as a general audience so that she could enjoy the performance. Iwahashi Shinichi himself invited her as a general audience to high-five after his success.
Then we met again and again, the distance was getting closer quietly, and hands touched together in celebration.
Once we hold hands together, many things are bound to change.
Everything will be completely different before and after you hold this hand. No matter what you say next, it will be a brand new beginning.
The past has been "broken", the future has become "unknown", and only the present is real.
As soon as Iwahashi Shin thought of this, he tightened his fingers slightly and held her hand firmly in his hand. He looked at her and said softly: "It's very close."
Akina Nakamori looked at him, her eyes moist and bright.
"Very close."
Nakamori Akina also repeated softly, "It's closer than I thought." Because Iwahashi Shinichi also walked towards her.
She suddenly pulled her hand back from Iwahashi Shinichi's hand, blinked her eyes, and said a little mischievously: "But it doesn't matter even if there is still a distance. Because now I know that Shinichi-kun is there."
As long as she determined the destination on the map, she would move forward step by step in his direction.
She was timid at first, but overcame her timidity. Although she was reckless, she took this step recklessly. A straightforward, stubborn, and courageous Akina Nakamori. As she said these words, her whole person exuded a certain kind of light.
Iwahashi Shinichi finds this Akina Nakamori very exciting.
"It's almost ten o'clock."
Nakamori Akina put Iwahashi Shinichi's origami peacock into her handbag. Now she had the determination to say goodbye. After today, there is still tomorrow.
Her behavior made Iwahashi Shinichi a little reluctant to give up. However, it was getting late.
"How did Akina-san get here?" He stood up.
Akina Nakamori held the car keys in her hand and said, "I drove here by myself."
"Oh." He nodded.
Nakamori Akina looked at Iwahashi Shinichi and suddenly said: "Tonight, when I said I wanted to send Yukiko home, she looked reluctant."
"Well..." After listening to her words, Iwahashi Shinichi also remembered Okada Yukiko's expression of disappointed expectations.
"Yukiko seems to want Shinichi-kun to send her back tonight," Akina Nakamori said.
Iwahashi Shinichi thought for a while, "I think Yukiko looked like she didn't expect Akina-san to drive here by herself."
The two exchanged glances and both figured it out.
Okada Yukiko's expectation tonight was that Iwahashi Shinichi would send her and Nakamori Akina home.
"So that's it." Iwahashi Shin kept laughing and thought for a moment, "Yukiko probably found out about Akina-san and I's acquaintance."
Akina Nakamori said, "I just feel that Yukiko really wants me to meet Shinichi-kun."
Only by meeting in person can she confirm how familiar they are... Iwahashi Shinichi thought silently.
Unexpectedly, Okada Yukiko had the idea of secretly looking for evidence. Now that the matter was told, both of them found it funny.
But it was funny, Akina Nakamori thanked Okada Yukiko for this prank in her heart.
Shinichi Iwahashi used his brain and discussed with Akina Nakamori, "In that case, how about continuing the game with Yukiko?"
It was Nakamori Akina who originally suggested keeping a secret with Okada Yukiko. Now it seems that Iwahashi Shinichi, who said he wanted to continue, is not inferior to Nakamori Akina when it comes to pranks.
"One against two, isn't it a bit unfair to Yukiko?" Akina Nakamori said this without any intention of changing her mind.
If it hadn't been for Okada Yukiko's secret poking and probing for evidence tonight, the two of them wouldn't have been so playful about hide-and-seek with her.
The two people looked at each other and laughed again, for the same prank.
However, Nakamori Akina quietly thought that the look on Shinichi Iwahashi's face when she said she was driving over just now was the real reason why she suddenly thought of Okada Yukiko.
She looked away, not laughing at the same prank, but at the little details she discovered.
"I still need to stay and tidy up the office." Shinichi Iwahashi glanced out the dark window, "I'm going to work tomorrow."
"Shinichi-kun will go to Osaka the day after tomorrow."
We met today, and then everyone is busy with their own work. We have to sit together and make origami like tonight. This kind of short free time is quite luxurious.
"Can I call you?" Akina Nakamori asked.
Iwahashi Shinichi promised, "I will call you back as soon as I see the message...I will call you too."
"Then I'll call you back as soon as possible." She followed his example.
But what he said was true.
Shinichi Iwahashi sent Akina Nakamori to the corridor.
It was time to say goodbye, but there was nothing to say. Or, rather than not knowing what to say, it was better to say that I was waiting for something. The two faced each other, Nakamori Akina looked at him with a smile, but did not say that sentence.
see you later".
Iwahashi Shinichi guessed something, thought about it, and deliberately imitated her, staring at her with big eyes and small eyes.
After staring at each other for a while, Nakamori Akina couldn't bear it anymore, so she reached out and grabbed Iwahashi Shinichi's hand. Iwahashi Shinichi, who had won, held her hand in return.
"See you next time..." she said.
You can meet again when you want to meet.
…
It was almost eleven o'clock when Iwahashi Shinichi got home. He opened the drawer, put the origami peacock in, and stared at the origami zoo in the drawer for a while, lost in thought.
The ugly kitten with no spirit, the beautiful giraffe, behind each origami, there is a story related to Akina Nakamori. Now there are more and more of them, especially this beautiful but spiritless peacock.
Once the words were spoken, many things became different. Even looking at these origami now, my thoughts are very different.
I was staring at the origami in a trance when I suddenly heard the pager on the table ring.
After taking a look, I saw it was from Akina Nakamori. Iwahashi Shinichi took the pager to find the phone and called. It only rang once and was picked up.
"Good evening." As soon as Nakamori Akina said hello, she couldn't help but laugh.
She smiled and asked him, "How many times have you said 'good evening' to Shen Yi-kun tonight?"
Iwahashi Shinichi also laughed, "I've lost count."
"This is the fourth time." He said this, and Akina Nakamori reported the answer first. Only when she said it did she realize that he had set her up, and she laughed at her own recklessness again.
After laughing, there was a brief silence on both ends of the phone.
"I want to tell you that I came home and put away Shinichi-kun's peacock." Akina Nakamori rambled.
Iwahashi Shinichi listened patiently and chatted with her.
There was a lot of stuff on the phone, but none of it had anything to do with business. Even so, the call was enjoyable, and if I wasn't paying attention, it turned into a phone call.
In the past, Shinichi Iwahashi was very gentle, but now, Shinichi Iwahashi's gentleness makes Akina Nakamori feel differently.
Once the words are spoken, everything is a new beginning. What has never happened is naturally fresh, and even what has been experienced becomes fresh.
"Ah." Akina Nakamori chatted a lot, but then she realized, "It's very late."
She will also enter the recording studio tomorrow.
The two of them said good night to each other. After putting down the phone, Akina Nakamori walked into the bathroom and prepared to wash up. When she passed by the mirror, she subconsciously glanced at her. She looked a little sweeter and more content than usual in the mirror.
She squinted her eyes in the mirror, and then, as if to hide the emotions written on her face, left the mirror.
…
After the three-day holiday, Shinichi Iwahashi started working on the fourth day.
On the first day of work, we held a regular morning meeting. The record company was fully prepared for Zard’s debut, and they were just waiting for the debut single to be sent to record stores around the world and put on the shelves for official sales.
In parallel with the promotion of the debut single, there is the TV series "Falling in Love with Your Eyes" that will be broadcast later. In addition, radio promotions, TV station promotions, and small concerts are also arranged.
Akamatsu Haruko was assigned by Shinichi Iwahashi to mentor Kamai Sachiko, and she also attended today's morning meeting. She will go to Osaka with them on the 5th, so during this year's New Year's holiday, she did not go back to her hometown in Kyoto to celebrate the New Year.
After the meeting, Iwahashi Shinichi called Akamatsu Haruko to the office.
"Happy New Year." Shinichi Iwahashi said.
Akamatsu Haruko also wished him "Happy New Year" and came to attend the morning meeting. She was also dressed in professional attire and looked presentable.
"How did you spend the New Year's holiday?" Iwahashi Shinichi casually said.
Unexpectedly, Akamatsu Haruko told him, "Sachiko invited me to her house to celebrate the New Year."
The relationship between the two girls, Haruko Akamatsu and Sachiko Kamaiike, was beyond Shinichi Iwahashi's expectation.
The person who discovered Kamai Sachiko and brought her to Iwahashi Shinichi was Akamatsu Haruko. The two girls had similar personalities and got along quite well.
After that, Akamatsu Haruko was assigned to be the man in black for Kamai Sachiko. Although it was Shinichi Iwahashi who served as the chief producer of zard, in terms of her devotion to the band and Kamai Sachiko, it was Akamatsu Haruko.
She is already familiar with the three musicians in the band, and has a good relationship with Kamai Sachiko. It is more suitable for her to take on this role than others.
She was the one who suddenly quit the band and put Abnormal into a state of virtual rest. She was also the one who brought Sachiko Kamaiike to the band members.
The three musicians in the band are obviously more satisfied with Kamai Sachiko as the lead singer than Akamatsu Haruko, and they would have thought so even if she had not suddenly quit the band.
In this way, getting along with Kamai Sachiko is crucial.
Akamatsu Haruko was responsible for building a bridge between the musicians and the new vocalist, and the band's integration progress became much smoother.
Now, not only has she eliminated the estrangement with her three original teammates, but her relationship with Kamai Sachiko is also getting better and better.
On New Year's Eve, Akamatsu Haruko did not plan to go back to her hometown. After Kamatsu Sachiko learned about her arrangement, she asked Akamatsu Haruko if she wanted to go to her hometown in Qinye with her.
"Thanks to the hospitality of Sachiko's family, I spent a very warm New Year holiday." Akamatsu Haruko said.
The Kamachi family in Qinye are all good people who treat others with kindness and kindness. They also expressed a very warm welcome to the friends who took their daughter back. Of course, the fact that Akamatsu Haruko is not an artist in front of the stage, but a man in black behind the scenes,
I was also quite surprised.
In addition, Kamachi Sachiko's younger brother, Kamichi Kazaki, was quite shy when facing the beauty brought home by his sister.
Not only that, but after finding out that it was Akamatsu Haruko who introduced Kamaike Sachiko to Iwahashi Shinichi, Kamaike Sachiko's father also mentioned something extra.
"Sachiko's father also asked me to say hello to Iwahashi-san on his behalf." Akamatsu Haruko said to Iwahashi Shinichi.
Iwahashi Shinichi was a little surprised, he didn't expect that there was something about him, "Oh."
"He said, thank you Iwahashi-san for taking care of Sachiko."
Kamaike's father, who initially disagreed with his daughter's insistence on entering the entertainment industry, probably felt more grateful than anyone else in his heart for his daughter meeting Shinichi Iwahashi and being signed by him to become the lead singer of the band.
"This is a matter of duty." Shinichi Iwahashi smiled and accepted politely.
Mentioning Sachiko Kamaiike just in time to continue the topic, Shinichi Iwahashi changed the subject and asked her, "How is Sachiko-san's live performance going?"
Since last year, zard has been practicing in clubs in Tokyo. Shinichi Iwahashi went to see it a few times. Sachiko Kamaike is quite similar to Haruko Akamatsu when she first joined the band. She was at a loss when standing on the stage.
When I first performed live, there were a few times that almost led to a tragic situation comparable to when Haruko Akamatsu first appeared on stage.
Fortunately, the three musicians in the band have accumulated considerable coping experience when they partnered with Akamatsu Haruko, and they can play their role on the stage every time.
However, the lead singer who was in trouble on stage was replaced by a lead singer who was also in trouble on stage. For the three musicians of this band, this probability is touching enough.
